[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Call for defense of @decorators (original) (raw)

Andrew McGregor andrew at indranet.co.nz
Thu Aug 12 03:21:33 CEST 2004

--On Wednesday, 11 August 2004 9:55 a.m. -0500 Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> wrote:

Andrew> Aren't we really trying to recreate def as a multi-line lambda Andrew> that binds when it's in a context that is not expecting a Andrew> function argument in block form? I suppose you can look at it that way. The output of a function definition plus any decorator applications to it need not be a function though. I posted a simpleminded example of generating a greyscale ramp using a decorator. If I thought about it for more than a few seconds I could probably come up with some other examples as well where the output wasn't a function. Some of them might even be useful. ;-) Skip

And that's exactly my point: (relatively) big one-time-use functions can be really useful, especially if the function definition is somewhat dependant on context.

Andrew

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